seventeenth century. Precisely because experimental natural philosophy was thought incapable of becoming "scientific", as John Locke remarked, it was more accessible to women than were some other disciplines. As a venture into relatively unexplored territory, this book is extremely useful. Although there is still much work required in order to reconfigure the field, the need to include a wider ...

We present an estimation of the expected number of arcs and arclets in a sample of nearby (z < 0.1) clusters of galaxies, that takes into account the magnitude limit of the Visiting Astronomer at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. CTIO is operated by AURA, Inc. under contract to the National Science Foundation.

Guest Observer, McDonald Observatory, University of Texas at Austin. Visiting Astronomer, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.

The film ‘Don't look up’ engages a woman science advisor, historically very male-dominated role. Because the character of scientist Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) cannot be easily transformed into commodity, she is side-lined as scientific voice attempts to warn Earth coming apocalypse. For marginalised scientists, their value depends on how identity markers are used. satire audience apathy,...

khwāja naṣīr al-dīn ṭūsī is one of the greatest thinkers of the middle centuries (ah), who enjoys a high status in science and literature and has a worldwide reputation. naṣīr al-dīn ṭūsī did not suffice himself merely with science (‘ilm) and thought and was involved in practical politics, too. the last two decades of khwāja naṣīr’s life in ilkhanids courts was his period of scientific and prac...

As quoted by the famous astronomer Carl Sagan, “the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence” (http://wiki.c2.com/?AbsenceOfEvidenceIsNotEvidenceOfA bsence) is the logical corollary that conclusions should not be drawn when a direct test for the presence of evidence cannot be made. This applies to the article by Matrone et al in this issue of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular...

Avicenna (980-1037 AD), also known as Sheikh or-Raeis, was an Muslim philosopher, physician, surgeon, astronomer, politician, encyclopedist, and mathematician. Avicenna's writings comprise of five books, know as the Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb (The Canon of Medicine) and the canon covers a wide variety of medical issues. This canon of medicine was the main reference for medical education in Western cou...